Theater of the Absurd: It's 9 degrees here, after the coldest January since Christ was born. Or since Moses - I forget. Entire nation is in the freezer, and a homeless man reported seeing a Wooly Mammoth at 2 AM this morning outside the Blarney Stone on 9th Avenue. Predictably, that Mammoth story goes unreported. If this were a heat wave, the story would be about AGW. However, Sec of Energy Chu warns of loss of California's vineyards, and RFK Jr. claims hog farms more dangerous than Bin Laden. Even Lefties are beginning to make jokes, but Congress treated Al Gore's lies and distortions with respect. Good grief, he's talking about Venus.
Related: Save the children from GW propaganda. Please.
The only reason to highlight the Pelosi story is to wonder how the press would have handled the story if Sarah Palin had said it.
Now that Obama is in office, press feels free to report that Al Qaida is dying. More at Tiger
Related: Hawkins on Feith's War and Decision
The strange personnel problems at the White House. What they did to Gen. Zinni is unbelievable. It's not a good idea to piss off guys like Zinni.
Now this is really important: Woman achieves record boobs, proving that everybody is good at something.
Krauthammer: Let's return to what time?
$500,000 is chump change for well-connected Dems
The peanut allergy hysteria. Creating enough fear and hysteria to blind people's intelligence seems to be the current popular mode for cranks to drive their agendas: See Obama Catastrophe if bill not passed. Yes, a catastrophe for the Dems, not for the citizens. Related: Is Obama's arrogance beginning to wear on people already?
From Nyquist on Compound Errors:
More than 100 years ago Gustave Le Bon wrote The Psychology of Socialism (Psychologie du Socialisme). He said that socialism was a religion. “No apostle has ever doubted the future of his faith,” began Le Bon, “and the socialists are persuaded of the approaching triumph of theirs. Such a victory implies of necessity the destruction of the present society, and its reconstruction on other bases.” If we look at civilization closely, we find it to be a “tissue of ideas” and customs determined by heredity. “No society is firmly held together unless this moral heritage is solidly established,” warned Le Bon. And today we find that American society has abandoned its moral heritage – thanks to the cultural influence of the socialists. In the battle between socialist ideas and market freedom, the socialist have defeated their competition – in universities and Hollywood, in publishing houses and major media. “The modern bourgeoisie are no longer sure of their rights,” wrote Le Bon. “Or rather they are not sure of anything. They listen to everything and tremble before the most pitiable windbags.”
The capitalist system cannot defend itself against its critics. The system is not a “dictatorship of the bourgeoisie,” as Marx alleged. Instead, it is a distracted uncle who naively trusts that the best ideas will triumph. What we have seen, instead, is the progressive corruption of our terminology; the abandonment of our folkways; a failure to transmit the heritage of our forefathers to the next generation; the triumph of ideals diametrically opposed to those of our nation’s Founders. When the government’s policies lead us from disaster to disaster, and the people are suffering, the outcome will devolve into an ideological battle between differing brands of nonsense.
